Incoherence

by Peter Hammill

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  • Type: Album
  • Released: 29 March 2004
  • Label: Fie!
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 41:41
  • Community rating: 3.52/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Comprised of a single continuous, forty-minute composition exploring the failure of human communication, this ambitious release finds the Van der Graaf Generator frontman recovering from a serious heart attack. The album is densely arranged, shifting fluidly between acoustic chamber folk delicacy and tense, complex progressive art-rock sections.

Genres

Descriptors: folk, acoustic, male-vocals, piano, conceptual

Tracklist

  1. When Language Corrodes (2:47)
  2. Babel (4:36)
  3. Logodaedalus (2:18)
  4. Like Perfume (1:32)
  5. Your Word (1:09)
  6. Always And A Day (2:09)
  7. Cretans Always Lie (3:25)
  8. All Greek (4:15)
  9. Call That A Conversation? (3:14)
  10. The Meanings Changed (1:57)
  11. Converse (2:10)
  12. Gone Ahead (5:40)
  13. Power Of Speech (2:42)
  14. If Language Explodes (3:47)

Credits

  • David Jackson - saxophone, flute
  • Stuart Gordon - violin

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